Lines of Leaving
by Christy Brown
a poet who wrote with his only functioning member, his left foot.
"I am losing you again
all again
as if you were ever mine to lose.
The pain is as deep
beyond formal possession
beyond the fierce frivolity of tears.
Absurdly you came into my world
my time-wrecked world
a quiet laugh below the thunder.
Absurdly you leave it now
as always I foreknew you would.
I lived on an alien joy.
Your gentleness disarmed me
wine in my desert
peace across impassable seas
path of light in my jungle.
Now uncatchable as the wind you go
beyond the wind
and there is nothing in my world
save the straw of salvation in the amber dream.
The absurdity of that vast improbable joy.
The absurdity of you gone.
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Lines of Leaving have two clear and distinguished objects:
1) To make people more aware of the alarming problems of human kind, that others usually keep quiet about, and
2) To get people to empathize for the weak and powerless who can't stick up for their rights on their own so that the world wouldn't
become a place where survival of fittest (equals wealthiest these days) would take a place among humans too.
In order to achieve these goals Lines of Leaving
invented their own kind of melodic, touching and catchy rock music with always something to say and criticize. Half of the band has
educational background from the social studies so that the topics and the message in their songs are deeper than the shallow headlines
found media-sexy by the commercial news channels.
As a first shot in this battle for humanity Lines of Leaving released their first studio debut as a charity single for the homeless.
This is at the same time a statement of their musical interests and a first effort to make people aware of the things they wouldn't
normally know or care about.
So why the homeless? A homeless is a living example of the kind of human that doesn't get anyone’s sympathy and therefore no one bothers
to stick up for him or her until their problems concern people's lives practically. Marginalized or distant problems of human kind are
not to be cared by the well-being and continuously prospering majority. The reason why our first studio single is a charity single for
the homeless comes from that ideology. It is a statement from the band that how they are wanted to be heard: As a voice of the feeble.
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